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G. FAGAN'. DEVIG'E FOR BURNING AIR AND HYDROGARBON VAPOR.

No. 252,307. Patented Jan. 17,1882.

Inventor.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHEL e. FAGAN, on TROY, NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR BURNING AlR ANl'.) HYDR OCA RBON VAPORJS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,307, dated January 17, 1882.

Application filed May 13, 1881. (No model.)

Heating, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of devices designed to burn the vapors of hydrocarbon liquids by mixing them with the atmosphere,

and to utilize the heat produced thereby for heating and cooking purposes.

My invention therefore consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifi cally claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are three figures illustrating myinventiomin each of which the same rcference'letters are used to designate thesame parts.

Figure 1 shows in perspective the apparatus containing myinvention. Fig.2 illustrates ported on the standards F and the feet L L.

The letter B designates a receptacle for hydrocarbon liquid, having a supply-orifice at d,

and which receptacle is securedin any suitable manner to the underside of thelower platform,

T; and P P designate two pipes connecting with the receptacle at their lower ends, and at their top,D, open, so as to discharge the air and vapor of hydrocarbon liquid beneath the boiler-holes O 0, formed in the upper table-platform, T, where burned.

AtS there is shown a place to apply clock mechanism to force air through the receptacle by means of the pipe .P, which connects the latter with the former.

Within thereceptacle B there are formed the labyrinthal flues, designated at t, and they are produced by means ofthe vertical plates F 5. Within these fines there are hung the wicks, designated at a, which are made of a coarse fibrous material, and such as will by capillary attraction absorband vaporize the fluid in thecurrents of air passing through the flues and open structure of the wicks. The fluesdesignated at t are made to encircle the interior of the receptacle, so as to receive the air at. the

outer convolution of the flue, and to discharge vention relating to a mannerof utilizing acurrent of air under pressure for this purpose, rather than to a means of producing it.

The operation of the combined parts is as follows: A current of air under pressure entering the pipe P passes downwardly and into the receptacle B, thence through the flue t, at the outer convolution of thelatter, and it passes through its inner convolutions to the longitudinal center of the inclosure until it reaches the termination designated at at. From this part of the line t'the mixture of air and vapor rises through the pipes P P,to be discharged and burned at the upper orifices of the latter,

designated at D. At 0 O areshown valves ing hung in the flues t t, and these wicks take up by capillary attraction the hydrocarbon liquid and evaporate it from their fibrous surfaces into the current'of air passing through the flue.

I am well aware that there is no novelty in mixing air and hydrocarbon vapors to burn them for heating and cooking purposes.

I am also aware of the fact that fibrous material has been employed to vaporize hydrocarbon liquids for similar purposes, and that myinvention is limited to the improved means invented by me to use these elements.

The platform T" serves as an auxiliary shelf, to which the clock-work may be attached, as shown, and as a brace to steady the frame.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a vapor-stove, the combination of the hydrocarbon-receptacle B, formed with the fiues t, by means of the vertical strips F, and provided with the pendent Wicks a, the pipes P,and supporting-platform T, with openings 0, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a device for cookingbythecombustion of amixtureof air and hydrocarbon vapor, the

combination of tables T T T,snpported on the standards FF and on thelegs L L L L, the hydrocarbon-receptacle B, having the flues t, wicks a, the air-inlet pipe P, and the outlet- 15 pipes P P, as shown, and as described. Signed at Troy, New York, this 25th day of April, 1881. v

MICHEL Gr. FAGAN. Witnesses:

HORACE L. HIoKs, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL 

